Arriving on Android and iOS to coincide with the last mission of the Space Shuttle, NASA's new official app is a must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in humankind's efforts to reach for the stars.
Basically a portal for the vast amounts of media the National Aeronautics and Space Administration generates and …

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Track me not

How do I get free stuff like this installed without having to have a google account?

I do not want to hand over my life history to the oompa loompas in order to be able to get an account. Nor do I want to be targetted for marketing based on the free apps I choose to download via that account.

Bring back the old days when software authors just uploaded stuff to anon FTP.

Free stuff like this

FFS

Stop believing the crap. I have over 100 apps on my phone, all of them free. I have received not one marketing email from any of them. In fact, since creating a gmail account, I have received no spam whatsoever into that account. That account has no address, phone number or any other personal info attached to it and even Google can't tell whether the name on it is real or not.

I would say, from reading things on here, that a certain fruity company knows more about its users than big bad Google does about me.

download the .apk

I'm sure someone has posted it. I agree google are a bit obsessive with their data gathering but you can (with some effort) disable most of the synchronisation and keep your account linked only to the phone (about which the telcos know everything anyway).

You can even run a version of Android with no google components, I use CyanogenMod, and an independent apps market, try SlideMe.

The location...

It's not a NASA facility...

it's a very naughty boy.

Seriously though, that pin in the map isn't a facility icon... If you zoom right out, you'll see the real NASA icons in the USA, not surprisingly. When I ran the app, the pin was placed in my living room... Let the rumours of why your pin was in a field commence.

Been on iOS for a long time

Move along - nothing to see here

Living only a couple of miles away from this location I went to investigate. I can confirm that there is no secret NASA base what so ever, nor is there a nearby listening station and what you see on the map is just a giant hot air baloon shaped like a pin.

"Did I phrase that right? Will you let me go now? No - I won't tell anyone!"

Jodrell Bank?

Nice

Was at Jodrell Bank recently for the Flaming Lips gig, so had a look about. Not much in the way of NASA that I could see. Maybe they like to keep it real quiet, and only put details of it into their android app, and position it 30 miles away. That would make sense.

Jodrell Bank

National Space Centre

...Somewhere near Nottingham, off M1, if memory serves. Big brown sign, with a picture of rocket that looks like it was ripped off from a Tintin comic...

re first post. Stop being a numpty and overinflating your sense of importance. As others have pointed out, a Gmail account can actually be quite beneficial. I´ve been a user since first launch and get no spam. Repeat no spam. Nada. Niente.